MY ALTER EGO

In early days, when all had eaten the stew and had gathered around, the story teller and show man .....

He used a drawing stick and drew in  a large, clear space on the ground, in front of him, while sitting on his stool and scooting about as needed.  He wore a boar's head bone and skin with pride, for the boars are fierce fighters and very intelligent in tactics of evasion and attack, and have killed or maimed many members of the group.

The storyteller was, of course, an artist and as such was teaching his people to be able to communicate by sketching on the bare ground with a stick.
Early days, we all learned to sketch as the important necessity to say where we had been and what we had seen.  All our early ancestors could sketch or draw things.  And many of us could do it Very Well.

Our sketches were how our languages developed over time and our early writing was pictographs or quick sketches as symbols of the real thing.

Drawing on the ground was how we all learned a language and if we even try at all, we can do it too---It's in our genes.by now. Elbert